Rylance Appears in Free Reading of NICE FISH! 12/15

2008 Tony Award Winner Mark Rylance will appear in a one-night-only performance of NICE FISH! The thrilling adventures of ice fishermen. (Or what Robert did in his holidays before he met Gretchen), a new work based on the poems of Louis Jenkins at 8:00p.m. on Monday, December 15 at Theatre Row Theatres (410 W. 42nd Street).

NICE FISH!, conceived by Mark Rylance and directed by Matthew Warchus will also feature Matthew Cowles and is produced by Stuart Thompson Productions.

The work of Minnesota poet Louis Jenkins was brought to the attention of the New York theatre community when it was quoted by Mark Rylance in his acceptance speeches for the 2008 Tony and Drama Desk Awards.

This reading of NICE FISH! is free of charge. However, donations will be accepted to benefit Survival International (www.survival-international.org), a charity benefiting tribal peoples around the globe.

NICE FISH! The thrilling adventures of ice fishermen is the most recent collaboration between Mark Rylance and director Matthew Warchus, who have previously worked together on the London and Broadway productions of the 2008 Tony Award winning revival of Boeing-Boeing, Much Ado About Nothing at the Queen's Theatre, True West at the Donmar and West Yorkshire Playhouse and Life x 3 at the National Theatre and Old Vic. Additionally, Warchus directed Rylance's first work as a playwright, The Big Secret Live, "I am Shakespeare", Webcam Daytime Chatroom Show, which premiered at The Chichester Festival Theatre and toured England.

Photo of Mark Rylance by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.